Ferran Adria Quotes

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.

I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.

Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to answer them. But, in good part, it is true. And once you become committed to one particular answer, your freedom to ask new questions is seriously impaired.

I think best with a pencil in my hand.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

Creativity comes from the part of the brain that is veritable soup of experiences, memories and influences. We really don't like to start questioning exactly where it comes from, in case it stops coming.

I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.

It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking.

An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool

I write pretty fast, probably faster than most people. But I might think about something for six hours, then write it in 20 minutes. So did I write for six hours and 20 minutes, or just 20 minutes? I used to write absolutely every day, except for days when I had to travel or something.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.

Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's our job as writers is to just notice them and bring them to life.

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.